We have created an educational system, funded throughout the country by taxpayer dollars, that systematically turns our children away from the truth that makes them free.

Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.

I accept the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate, to represent the State of Illinois.

The money we spend on education should follow the choice of the parents, not the choice of educrats, bureaucrats, politicians, who, unfortunately, have been manipulating this process in their own career interests, not in the interests of our young people.

Nothing is so opportune for tyrants as a people tired of its liberty.

Christ would not vote for Barack Obama because Barack Obama has voted to behave in a way that it is inconceivable for Christ to have behaved.

That money was for working eight to twelve hour days ... it was not a welfare check.